Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-07-16
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STOCK AND FARM

Smoky Valley NetUs: The farmers
have taken to hauling their hogs to mar
ket at night to escape the excessive heat
during the day.
Smoky Valley Nelos: Reosntly P. j.
Teberg delivered a single wagon load OF
hogs containing fourteen head, which
melted $500 pounds Of pork.
Republican City Nes7s: T. A. Lowe
brought Ii i've fat hogs the other day
that averaged 388 ID each. They were
the latest hogs We have seen shipped
from this point for some time.
Jewell Republican: Some people who
rented Jewell county farms this year
enough peaches to pay the rent, from
orchards that had been considered
worthless.
Sabetha Herald: The farmers Of
Northeastern Kansas, as soon as they
have finished blowing corn, will proceed
at once to build ladders with which to
harvest it.
Republic City Lodge 7. o. o. F., No
2O4, Of Republic City, Republic county,
has been chartered. Term, perpetual.
Trustees, Charles SOmers, Charles Feer-
man, George Beck.
Sedan Times Journal: Green corn is
becoming an old thing In Sedan. Some
OF our exchanges from the northern part
OF the state are just announcing it's ap~
pearance IN market.
Norton Courier: Eight thousand six
hundred and four dollars worth Of gar
den truck, SIS. 461 worth OF poultry and
eggs were sold in the county for the
year ending March :, 1887.
Caldwell Journal: J. @. Maree. Iiv
ing two miles east of the city, has 8
sixty-Rcre field of white oats which viii
yield at least sixty bushels TO the acre.
a sample shown rs today by Smith
Taylor Was four feet in length.
At the same time live cattle are being
sent from towns in Colorado to Kansas
City dressed beef is being seut from
these cities to the Colorado towns. The
greed of local butchers is said to be the
cause of this double shipment of beef.
They will give 10 more for live cattle
than they are worth to send east, while
they ask for the meat of animals they
slaughter as much as dressed Chicago
beef costs.
j. II. Beal, of New York, who has
made himself very conspicuous in va
rious organizations Of deirymen and
farmers, and who collected large sums to
pay his expenses rs the champion Of the
anti oleCm6rgaTine bill, is now engaged
IN sending out circulars Of a gold and
silver mining company. AS a friend of
the sons of toll Joseph is always active
The Socisty for the Promotion Of Ag-
/ ricultural Science will hold its eighth
annual meeting at Columbia college, New
| York, beginning Monday evening, Aug.
8, and continuing on TuesdRy-the day
Immediately preceding the thirty sixth
meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement Of Science.
Burlington Republican: B. L. Kings
! bury has II ceres Of the finest yodng
clover thai ever stood up. He turns u
head Of COWS and calves on it every
morning and they break out inside Of an
hours time to get 81 the common grass
along the fences. Why is this, thusP
When working among the trees and
plants it Is a good plan to keep Prun-
/ ing knife convenient and whenever a
limb or branch is growing wrong or in
wrong place it should be cut out. In
this way trees may be kept in good
shape with very little trouble.
Where young trees are not kept well
mulched it will pay to keep the surface
Of the soil stirred, making it fine and
mellow. This applies especially to the
next two months. What We want TO
secure is a strong, healthy growth, so
that the wood will lave plenty or time
to harden before freezing weather Gets
| in. A certain degree of moisture is also
essential to the life Of the tree, and when
mulching is not done, this can only be
secured through thorough working Of
the soil.
Seward Co. COlsrant: Mr.. Lew Gar
niger, who lives five miles northwest Of
town, in this county, brought to this
Office for our inspection, one day last
week, a stalk of corn which measured
five feet and eleven inches. He says he
/ has a 12-acre field Of Just such corn.
/ It has always seemed curious to us, and
! frequently beyond our comprehension,
why people with agricultural inclina-
tons viii wallow and die in the dykes
and sWamps of Indiana and Missouri and
! the bogs and marshes of Iowa and Min
nesota, when, if they would only come
out west TO seward county, Kansas, they
could raise wheat, oats, rye and grass
as high as q man and corn as tall as an
old fashioned liberty pole.